Heidi Stevens: That wasn't a presidential debate. It was Facebook comments, but live. And equally uninformative
by Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune
Sep 30, 2020
3 minutes
That wasn't a presidential debate, it was a WWE match.
It was a beer-soaked brawl in the stands of a Major League Baseball game. It was a "s_ show," as CNN's Dana Bash put it. It was Facebook comments, but live. And equally uninformative.
No one walked away from that debate more knowledgeable about the two candidates' plans to tackle this country's towering, historic crises: a pandemic that has so far killed more than 200,000 Americans and continues to infect roughly 300,000 more of us per week; a perilously crippled economy; a long overdue
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